Thunderbolts of the Gods is a
108 page 8-1/2 x 11 full color monograph based on the life work of the two
authors--a revolutionary synthesis of comparative mythology and the
newly-discovered "Electric Universe".

The Monograph includes
an hour-long DVD introducing various aspects of the Electric
Universe explained by members of the Thunderbolts Group.

With the discovery of Herbig Haro objects, or “jetted stars”,
astronomers have scrambled for explanations. But these stars, now
observed by the hundreds, only accent a common and fundamental
misunderstanding of space.

The image above appeared as the “Astronomy
Picture of the Day”
(APOD) on Feb 3, 2006. The caption
identifies this stellar jet as a “cosmic tornado” light-years in
length, with gases moving at 100-kilometers per second. “Though such
energetic outflows are well known to be associated with the
formation of young stars, the exact cause of the spiralling
structures apparent in this case is still mysterious”.

In fact, astronomers express
great astonishment at such formations. Gravitational models featured
in twentieth century astronomy never envisioned narrow jets of anythingstreaming away from stellar bodies.
Neither gravity nor standard gas laws would allow it.

So the problem grows worse
the more we discover. To see the problem clearly, just consider the
language used to describe the stellar jets of “Herbig Haro objects”
such as that imaged above. The words typically employed are taken
from the behavior of wind and water on a rocky planet we call
“Earth”—a body that stands out as an exception in a universe that is
99.99 percent plasmaand dominated by electric currents and
their induced magnetic fields. A bizarre example of the outmoded
language is the description of stellar jets on NASA’s Hubble
Telescope website—the very page to which the APOD caption links for
an explanation of “such energetic outflows”.

The explanation
begins with these words: “Stellar jets are analogous to giant
lawn sprinklers. Whether a sprinkler whirls, pulses or
oscillates, it offers insights into how its tiny mechanism works.
Likewise stellar jets, billions or trillions of miles long offer
some clues to what's happening close into the star at scales of only
millions of miles, which are below even Hubble's ability to resolve
detail”.

Those who know
what a plasma discharge is might say, “if you think a lawn sprinkler
offers a good analogy for the picture above, put a sprinkler in
space and try it”. Any attempt to understand stellar jets across light years of space in terms of a nozzle
on one end should be a career-ending embarrassment.

To explain the narrow
tornado-like jet,
the Hubble page says: “Material either at or near the star is
heated and blasted into space, where it travels for billions of
miles before colliding with interstellar material." Does a star
have the ability to create collimated jets across (not billions,
but) trillions of miles by merely 'heating' material
in its vicinity? The matter in the jet is hot and
it is moving
through a vacuum. If one is to use an analogy with
water, the better example would be a super-heated steam hose. It
will not form a jet of steam for more than a few feet
before the steam disperses explosively.

The authors’ explanation not only
contradicts simple observation and experiment, it contradicts the
century-old gravitational theory on which the entire page is based.
Under the popular theory of star formation, it is matter "falling"
inward under the influence of gravity that creates stars. No one
proposing this “nebular hypothesis” ever imagined, in advance of
recent discoveries, that after gravity accomplished its
mass-gathering feat, it would give way to a more powerful force
evident in the jet. (As for the reference to collisions with
interstellar material, that is based entirely on the bizarre
explanation itself, not on anything actually observed.)

“Why are jets so narrow?” the NASA
writers ask. “The Hubble pictures increase the mystery as to how
jets are confined into a thin beam”. Then, after noting that the
Hubble pictures tends to rule out the idea (popular just a few years
ago) that a disk around the star could provide the needed “nozzle”,
the authors note: “One theoretical possibility is that magnetic
fields in the disk might focus the gas into narrow beams, but there
is as yet no direct observational evidence that magnetic
fields are important”.

Following this virtual dismissal of
magnetic fields, the authors pose two questions which bear directly
on the role of magnetic fields, though they are clearly unaware of
the connection. “What causes a jet’s beaded structure”, they ask.
And “why are jets ‘kinky’”? They do not realize that they have just
cited two of the most easily recognized features of plasma
discharge—“beading” and “kink instabilities”. But rather than
enter the
world of electrified plasma, so unfamiliar to astronomers, the web page
takes us into
“waterworld”. “…The beads are real clumps of gas plowing through
space like a string of motor boats”. And the “kinks along their path
of motion” can be seen as evidence for a stellar companion, one that
“pulls on the central star, causing it to wobble, which in turn
causes the jet to change directions, like shaking a garden hose”.

It is statements such as this that
cause plasma experts—those who have spent a lifetime observing the
unique behavior of electric currents and electric discharge in
plasma—to wonder about the future of theoretical science. For the
cosmic electricians there is nothing out of the ordinary in stellar
jets. Their counterparts appear regularly in the plasma laboratory.
They can be modeled in computer simulations. Their analogies can be
seen in
Earth’s upper atmosphere, in Martian
dust devils,
in the volcanoes of
Jupiter’s moon Io, on Saturn’s moon
Enceladus, in the
jets and
tails of comets, in the penumbra of
sunspots—and even in the vast
polar jets now seen
exploding from distant galaxies.

If the electrical theorists are
correct, those offering conventional answers to newly discovered objects
in space need a crash course on plasma and electricity.